Part 511

A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen.

Doz"enth (?), a. Twelfth. [R.]

Doz"er (?), n. One who dozes or drowses.

Doz"i*ness (?), n. The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Doz"y (?), a. Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. Dryden.

Doz"zled (?), a. [√71.] Stupid; heavy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Drab (?), n. [AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. Draff.] 1. A low, sluttish woman. King.

2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak.

3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

Drab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbing.] To associate with strumpets; to wench. Beau. & Fl.

Drab, n. [F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh. orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat, strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf. Drape, Trappings.] 1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

Drab, a. Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.

Drab"ber (?), n. One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

Drab"bet (?), n. A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

Drab"bish, a. Somewhat drab in color.

Drab"bish (?), a. Having the character of a drab or low wench. "The drabbish sorceress." Drant.

Drab"ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drabbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbling (?).] [&?;&?;&?;.See Drab, Draff.] To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.

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Drab"ble (?), v. i. To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.

Drab"bler (?), n. (Naut.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

Drab"ble-tail` (?), n. A draggle- tail; a slattern. Halliwell.

||Dra*cæ"na (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; she-dragon.] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

Dracæna Draco, the source of the dragon's blood of the Canaries, forms a tree, sometimes of gigantic size.

Dra"canth (?), n. A kind of gum; - - called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.

Drachm (?), n. [See Drachma.] 1. A drachma.

2. Same as Dram.

||Drach"ma (?), n.; pl. E. Drachmas (#), L. Drachmæ (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;. See Dram.] 1. A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.